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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] About static linking
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:23:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx9i21li.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140423225243.38a542c0@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:52:43 +0200")

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Dear Baruch Siach,
 > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:59:59 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

 >> +DHCPDUMP_LIBS = -lpcap
 >> +ifeq ($(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),y)
 >> +DHCPDUMP_LIBS += $(shell $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/pcap-config --static --additional-libs)
 >> +endif

 > This is not at all against your patch specifically, but I'm a bit
 > worried about all the static linking related kludges we add all over
 > the place. Is this normal? Shouldn't we fix the packages themselves and
 > submit patches upstream?

It would certainly be nice to get these things handled upstream, but
it's similar to the special-archs/nommu/uClibc stuff, E.G. not something
"normal" people gets affected by (and something we have decided to
support), so I don't think there's much else we can do.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-24 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 19:59 [Buildroot] [PATCH] dhcpdump: fix static build Baruch Siach
2014-04-23 20:52 ` [Buildroot] About static linking Thomas Petazzoni
2014-04-24  4:29   ` Baruch Siach
2014-04-24  7:16     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-04-24 15:23   ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2014-04-24 22:01     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-05-07 20:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] dhcpdump: fix static build Peter Korsgaard

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